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Happy Holidays from First Option

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 20th December | 0 Comment(s)

Happy Holidays Wishing you a beautiful holiday season and a new year of peace and happiness from all of us at First Option! Thank you to all our customers an [...]

Print Platform Cloud Service

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 14th August | 0 Comment(s)

New Offering Through Ricoh USA From the cloud, Print Platform Cloud Service lets you take a proactive approach to your always-on goals by staying on top of the most advanced software solutions and [...]

Sunset iSeries – Archive

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 15th June | 0 Comment(s)

Here's something we are hearing more about these days, "Sunset iSeries or Archive data" What does this mean exactly? Some companies have decided to get off the iSeries platform but need to store t [...]

Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 08th May | 0 Comment(s)

New Offering Through Ricoh USA - Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Ricoh’s approach to disaster recovery for multi-tenant VMware cloud environments offers organizations of any size a unique, cost [...]

Searching for an IBM i Cloud Hosting Provider

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 12th March | 0 Comment(s)

Here are some tips for searching for an IBM i Cloud Hosting Provider: Make sure you go with a IBM i Cloud provider with an established track record and software expertise. How long ha [...]

iSeries Monitoring Software

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 17th January | 0 Comment(s)

iSeries Monitoring Software Watchdog by First Option is an iSeries monitoring software solution that provides centralized management via a user friendly interface for key system health threshold ale [...]

First Option Newsletter

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 17th December | 0 Comment(s)

Click for newsletter We are approaching the end of 2021 and it's time for our annual newsletter. The IRS has changed the 1099-NEC printed form to a 3-up copy. For the Recipient or Payer/S [...]

Managed Security Solutions- by Ricoh

Written by: Tricia Fuller, General | 15th November | 0 Comment(s)

Nearly 60% of cyberattacks affect small and medium-sized businesses. *2019 Investigations Report by Verizon New Offering Through Ricoh USA - BullWall RansomCare RansomCare (Ricoh) is a new and inno [...]

Top Four Reasons to go to Cloud Hosting

Written by: Tricia Fuller, Hosted Customers | 28th September | 0 Comment(s)

First, peace of mind - With Cloud Hosting, your system is up and running 24/7 by 365 except for scheduled maintenance. Even with the threat of hurricane Sandy, First Option's iSeries server re [...]

Don’t Rebuild – IBM i Application Modernization Will Save You Money

Written by: William Chase, General | 11th August | 0 Comment(s)

IBM i Application Modernization Most companies still use legacy applications – applications that were of an older version – and legacy software still forms a critical component of the operations [...]